OK,
Cheers,
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fæ" <[email protected]>
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for
Wikimedia"paidvolunteers"
On 5 April 2014 08:09, Peter Southwood <[email protected]>
wrote:
Will you be expecting every supporter of a political party, every member
of
a religious group, every national of a country, every supporter of a
football team and so on ad nauseam... to declare COI when editing a
related
article? These groups are often more biased then grunt employees.
Wikipedia
content is largely contributed by enthusiasts with either a strong bias
or
partial information (leading to unintentional bias). It is the strength
and
the wakness of crowdsourcing. Live with it or lose many of your
contributors. This whole pogrom against paid editors is a waste of effort
as
it is virtually unenforceable without an invasion of privacy that the NSA
would reject as over the top. Judge the contributor by the quality of
their
work, not by who their connections may be, or require every contributor
to
register their true and validated identity and all affiliations,
financial
or otherwise.. I oppose double standards favouring unpaid fanatics
against
well intentioned professionals
Hi Peter,
No, the groups you mention are not covered by this proposal.
As for "invasion of privacy", this seems tangential. The proposal is
for Wikimedia employees and similar to be transparent about the fact
of their status. On the surface at least, this is not something one
would expect to be kept a secret on Wikimedia projects.
Thanks,
Fae
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